Syria: A year on from the end of battle for Raqqa, the US-led Coalition remains in denial about the true scale of civilian deaths it caused

15 October 2018, Index number: MDE 24/9238/2018

To mark the anniversary Amnesty International rebuts a private letter received from the US Department of Defense in September about the organization’s research into the US-led Coalition’s shocking number of civilian casualties in Raqqa, publicized in Amnesty International’s June 2018 report, “War of Annihilation”. The Public Statement also documents new cases uncovered by Amnesty International’s latest field investigations.